About

Child Revive

Child Revive First Aid was founded in 2010 in response to parents and carers being unable to access quality training that was focused on paediatric first aid emergencies and conducted by experienced professionals.

Our specialised parent first aid courses provide parents and carers with practical hands-on training and are only taught by experienced paramedics and paediatric nurses. They are run in accordance with the Australian Resuscitation Council and other peak professional bodies such as Asthma Victoria, The Royal Childrens' Hospital Melbourne and The Childrens' Hospital at Westmead Sydney. As well as our range of parent first aid courses we also offer the full range of workplace accredited first aid courses.

We are always interested in hearing from paramedics and paediatric nurses who would like to join our team of trainers in Melbourne. Please email Amanda at amanda@childrevive.com.au for more information.

Meet The Team

Amanda

Amanda is the founder of Child Revive and has over 15 years experience as an Advanced Life Support Paramedic as well as extensive first aid training experience. Amanda has worked as a lead first aid trainer and program developer for the Emergency Medical Response team in Victoria and Ambulance Victoria First Aid, which includes training staff from the MFB, CFA and Victoria Police. Amanda continues to work as an Advanced Life Support Paramedic and sessional University lecturer. She has two children.

Leanne

Leanne has been a paediatric nurse at the Royal Children's Hospital for
over 16 years. A majority of her time has been spent in the short stay
paediatric unit which cares for children who present from emergency with
acute illnesses. She has four children.

Anne

Anne has worked as a nurse for over 30 years. She has worked in a variety of paediatric and nursing roles and is currently working as an immunisation nurse in a busy medical centre. She has four children.

Kristina

Kristina is the Tasmania co-ordinator for Child Revive. She has worked as a nurse in emergency for over 15 years and is a Clinical Nurse Educator and Paediatric Life Support Coordinator. Kristina also has her Masters in Public Health and is an accredited Asthma and Anaphylaxis instructor and First Aid instructor with the Asthma Foundation. She has one child.

Lauren

Lauren has been a paediatric nurse for over 10 years. She has an extensive background in paediatric intensive care and now works as the Paediatric Liver Transplant Coordinator. She has one child.

Rose

Rose has been an advanced life saving paramedic for over 8 years. She has extensive pre hospital experience across all ages and is mum to one child with another on the way.

Liz

Liz has over 20 years paediatric experience, and has worked in a variety of acute hospital settings, both in Australia and the UK. She has three children.

Stephanie

Steph has been a paediatric nurse at the Royal Children's Hospital for the past 6 years. She has three young children.

Johanna

Johanna has over 12 years experience working as an advanced life support paramedic and currently she also works as a nurse at Mercy Hospital. She has one child.

Chantelle

Chantelle has worked as a paediatric nurse for 7 years in Perth before relocating to Melbourne in 2017. She has specialist qualifications in emergency care and paediatric resuscitation, and is passionate about sharing her knowledge with proactive families.

Vashti

Vashti has worked as an Advanced Life Support Paramedic for 14 years alongside her MICA Paramedic husband. She has twin boys.

Meegan

Meegan has over 6 years experience working as a nurse in a range of roles. More recently she has specialised as an emergency paediatric nurse.

Mary

Mary has worked at the Royal Children's Hospital as a registered nurse since 1990 and has worked more recently training support workers to look after children with complex medical needs, including basic life support. She has three children.

Peisha

Peisha is a paediatric nurse and has been working at the Royal Children’s Hospital for 20 years. She has experience in intensive care nursing and currently works as a Clinical Nurse Specialist on the General Medical and Respiratory ward at the RCH. She has two children.

Sarah

Sarah has worked for over 13 years as a nurse. The majority of this time was spent working in neonatal intensive care at The Royal Children's Hospital however, more recently Sarah has worked as a psychiatric nurse in a mother/baby unit. She has two children.

Sian

Sian has worked as a Paediatric Nurse for over 9 years and during this time has worked predominantly in the Neurology unit and more recently the emergency department.

Neha

Neha has worked as a nurse at The Royal Children's Hospital for over 8 years. She has worked predominantly in the Neurology ward caring for children with seizures and head injuries. She has one child.

Testimonials

Debrah was a wonderful trainer. The course ran fluently and was very informative. Real life examples of things experienced by Debrah as both a nurse and mother really showed that things can happen and it is best to be well prepared and educated. She was fantastic with questions and all information was relevant and easy to understand.

Vanessa, June 2016

This is a great course I feel every new parent should attend. It answered many questions, quashed quite a few misconceptions about things like fever and choking and the CPR practice was very helpful.

The course was a good length and covered enough that you retained what you learnt in the session.

Christine, June 2016

My partner and I were worried that we'd leave feeling anxious about all the bad things that could happen to our baby but the opposite happened!

Hearing the statistics about just how uncommon a lot of these things are coupled with easy to understand advice about what to do if they should happen resulted in us leaving feeling reassured and confident. Thank you!

- Kate, July 2016

Really enjoyed the course, found it informative, interesting and practical. I'd highly recommend it for all parents, grandparents and carers.

Great value and was easy to book.

Ashley, July 2016

The course was absolutely brilliant! I feel so much more confident that I'll know what to do if a medical situation arises.

It's a must for anyone that cares for a baby or child and I'd recommend it to all mothers groups. Thank you!!

Kerry, June 2016

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About Us

Child Revive First Aid was founded in 2010 in response to parents being unable to access quality training that was focused on baby and child first aid emergencies.

As well as our range of parent first aid courses we also offer the full range of workplace accredited first aid courses.

We run nationally accredited first aid courses in accordance with the Australian Resuscitation Council and peak professional bodies such as Asthma Victoria, The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Sydney.

All Child Revive courses are conducted by experienced paramedics and paediatric nurses with years of experience caring for sick and injured children.